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Trauma Surgery Essentials

A Must-Know Guide to Emergency Management

  • 1st Edition - June 22, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Anil K. Srivastava
  • Language: English

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Trauma Surgery**Time is of the essence in the effective management of trauma patients, requiring quick evaluation, immediate lifesav… Read more

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**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Trauma Surgery**

Time is of the essence in the effective management of trauma patients, requiring quick evaluation, immediate lifesaving procedures, and a definitive treatment of a wide variety of injuries. Trauma Surgery Essentials: A Must-Know Guide to Emergency Management has been written and designed to provide need-to-know information in a visually appealing, easy-to-read format. Expert trauma surgeon Dr. Anil K. Srivastava has identified the essential trauma surgery facts and procedures you must know, based on authoritative textbooks, practice guidelines, and current peer-reviewed journals, and compiled all of this information into a handy guide, ideal for quick reference at the point of care.

Key features

  • Covers the emergent evaluation and management of trauma patients, as well as the emergency management of specific injuries
  • Uses an easy-to-digest, bullet-point format to convey information in a way that’s easy to follow and understand
  • Contains dozens of full-color illustrations that focus on surgical anatomy and surgical procedures, as well as numerous algorithms that aid in surgical decision making
  • A valuable resource for medical students, trainee surgical residents, trauma surgery fellows, general surgeons, trauma surgeons, ER physicians, and midlevel providers, as well as other non-surgical physicians who are interested in the management of trauma patients
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

Medical students, trainee surgical residents, trauma surgery fellows, general surgeons, trauma surgeons

Table of contents

PART 1 Evaluation and Resuscitation of Trauma
SECTION I Initial Evaluation of Trauma Patients

1. Death in Trauma Patients

2. Process of Evaluation of Trauma Patients

SECTION I I Resuscitation of Trauma Patients

3. The Vicious Cycle of Trauma

4. Airway Assessment and Management

5. Management of Breathing and Ventilation

6. Assessment of Shock in Trauma Patients

7. Principles of Management of Hemorrhagic Shock

8. Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assay

9. Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta

10. Monitoring of Resuscitation of Hemorrhagic Shock

PART 2 Emergency Management of Regional Trauma
SECTION III Head Trauma

11. Evaluation of Head Injury

12. Management of Severe Brain Injury

13. Scalp Laceration, Skull Fractures, and Facial Fractures
SECTION I V Spine Trauma

14. Cervical Spine Clearance

15. Evaluation and Management of Cervical Spine Injuries

16. Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Injuries

17. Evaluation and Management of Spinal Cord Injury
SECTION V Neck Trauma

18. Evaluation and Management of Blunt Neck Trauma

19. Evaluation and Management of Penetrating Neck Injuries
SECTION V I Chest Trauma

20. Emergency Thoracotomies

21. Evaluation and Management of Severe Thoracic Injuries
SECTION VII Abdominal Trauma

22. Evaluation and Management of Hemodynamically Unstable Abdominal Penetrating/Blunt Trauma

23. Evaluation and Management of Hemodynamically Stable Abdominal Penetrating/Blunt Trauma

24. Trauma Exploratory Laparotomy

25. Management of Liver Injuries

26. Evaluation and Management of Pancreatic Injuries

27. Evaluation and Management of Spleen Injuries

28. Evaluation and Management of Stomach and Duodenal Injuries

29. Management of Small Bowel, Colon, and Rectal Injuries

30. Evaluation and Management of Urological Injuries
SECTION VIII Vascular Trauma

31. Evaluation and Management of Retroperitoneal Vascular Injuries

32. Evaluation and Management of Vascular Injuries (Upper and Lower Extremities)
SECTION I X Musculoskeletal Trauma

33. Evaluation and Management of Pelvic Fracture Emergencies

34. Evaluation and Management of Extremity Fracture Emergencies

PART 3 Miscellaneous
SECTION X Pediatric Trauma, Trauma in Pregnancy, Scoring and Grading, Medications

35. Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Trauma

36. Evaluation and Management of Trauma in Pregnancy

37. Commonly Used Scoring and Grading Systems in Trauma

38. Medications in Emergency Trauma Management

Review quotes

"This book is a guide to the initial management of injured patients. The clear outline format distills complex content." -©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, David James Dries, MSE, MD (Regions Hospital) Doody’s Score: 74 – 3 Stars

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 6, 2023
  • Language: English

About the author

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Anil K. Srivastava

Anil K. Srivastava, MD, FACS, is a Trauma and General Surgeon at Mercy Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in St Louis, Missouri. Dr. Srivastava has a teaching affiliation with St Louis University, Department of Surgery, in Saint Louis, Missouri. He is a fellow and member of various prestigious surgical societies, including the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (UK), the Royal College of Surgeons of London (UK), American Burn Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and Americas Hernia Society. He has published many journal articles in peer reviewed journals and given presentations at various scientific meetings. He believes that essential fund of knowledge is the ‘key’ in the management of trauma and surgical patients.
Affiliations and expertise
Trauma and General Surgeon, Mercy Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in St Louis, Missouri, USA